Abandoned Engineering — Season 7
Ambitious engineering projects that have been left in ruins.
About this season
These are some of the most spectacular examples of abandoned engineering the world has ever known. The series explores how and why they were built, consider the financial and social costs of their failure and examine the environmental and ecological impacts. The series also explores how experts came up with plans to make something beautiful or useful from the ruins.
Episodes (12)
1. Hollywood Heroes
7.0Aired 13 January 2021 • 44 min
Legendary film sets with surprising pasts and real locations that inspired Hollywood. Within these decaying structures are the echoes of history.
2. Stalin's Subway
10.0Aired 20 January 2021 • 44 min
In North Wales a secret facility which once manufactured mustard gas and enriched uranium lies in ruins. In Malta is a luxurious quarantine facility, that hides a dark secret.
3. Disaster At The Maya Hotel
9.0Aired 27 January 2021 • 44 min
Ruins of a vast industrial ghost town in the United States, a windswept Scottish island and the remains of a resort in Japan that watched a city burn.
4. Murder Underground
8.0Aired 3 February 2021 • 44 min
An engineering masterpiece carved into the cliff-face, and a long-range beacon that transmitted one of the most infamous messages in American history.
5. El Dorado Canyon
7.0Aired 10 February 2021 • 44 min
An American desert canyon where fortunes were made and lives were lost, and an island fortress in Scotland with an Achilles heel.
6. The Mafia Bunker
7.0Aired 17 February 2021 • 44 min
An iron monster lost in the Alaskan tundra, a Crusader fort thrown into a modern conflict, and a prison built to house a mafia kingpin.
7. Ruins of the Rust Belt
7.0Aired 24 February 2021 • 44 min
A real-life concrete jungle in America's 'Rust Belt', and an industrial facility that brought energy to a remote corner of the world.
8. American Ghost Park
8.0Aired 3 March 2021 • 44 min
A Middle Eastern region littered with ruins and a strange facility in Taiwan that struck fear into the hearts of those who knew its true purpose.
9. Fortress of the Sky
8.0Aired 10 March 2021 • 44 min
Eerie ruins hiding in the forested hills of Arkansas, USA, and a disintegrating gulag in Albania that housed enemies of the state.
10. Catastrophe and Cover Up
7.0Aired 17 March 2021 • 44 min
A volcanic island just off Taiwan containing chilling ruins from its darkest era, and a miniature railway that lies forgotten in the woods of Arkansas.
11. Dead Sea Disaster
10.0Aired 24 March 2021 • 44 min
A fairy-tale castle that staged one of the strangest stories of the Second World War and a haunting complex on an old American Frontier.
12. Global Icons
10.0Aired 31 March 2021 • 44 min
Bizarrely-shaped huts in India, once home to global superstars, are now eerily quiet and neglected, and a shattered compound in Colombia linked to a criminal mastermind.